Richard Pryor Quotes
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.
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I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
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But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
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I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
